THE PAPER July 27, 2011
Cutting Edge Family Dentistry offers tooth implant options by Danielle Smith dsmith@thepaperofwabash.c om
Dr. Lisa M. Strieter is offering unique and practical options for implant placement and denture stabilization at her office, Cutting Edge Family Dentistry, 948 Manchester Ave., Wabash. Approximately one year ago, Dr. Strieter began placing conventional implants, which are used to replace a missing or damaged tooth. Implants can be placed in a space where a tooth has been removed or where a tooth never came in. “It’s the best alternative to replacing a tooth at this point because it doesn’t involve the other teeth beside it,” Dr. Strieter said. “When you do a bridge it involves cutting each tooth beside it and that destroys tooth structure and you risk root canals.” Dr. Strieter went on to explain that implants will not get cavities so they are a long-term, and even lifetime, treatment option. Cutting Edge is also offering the MDI Denture Stabilization System. “Most people don’t wear their lower denture or have a difficult time with their lower denture so this helps stabilize it, kind of like a tabletop,” Dr. Strieter said. This revolutionary option involves the installation of miniature titanium alloy implants in the patient’s gums. These
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Local story to make national headlines again by Craig Brosman cbrosman@thepaperofwabash.com
After Dateline NBC Producer Fred Rothenberg read Hillel Levin’s book “In With the Devil” and spoke with the author, he knew he had to come to Wabash. Rothenberg was intrigued by the story of Jimmy Keene and Wabash native Larry Hall. Rothenberg pitched his idea to his boss at NBC who liked the idea. Rothenberg then started to put together the pieces for the show. “I read about how Keene was the only to ever inmate request a transfer from a low security facility to a maximum security prison,” Rothenberg said. “The U.S. district attorney asked him to
be an informant for the United States government and if he got what they needed he was to be let go unconditionally. The over arching story in the book was Larry Hall.” On July 18, Rothenberg was in Wabash filming parts for his special that will most likely air in the late fall. He interviewed numerous Wabash locals that knew Hall. Not only did he spend time in Wabash, but also he spent time in Gas City, Marion, Urbana, Ill., Danville, Ill. and Georgetown, Ill. “The case really starts in Illinois,” Rothenberg said. “He was convicted on Aug., 18, 1995 of kidnapping 15-year-old Jessica Roach while she was riding her bike in rural Georgetown, Ill. Six
months later her body was found lying in a cornfield in Indiana.” Hall is suspected of killing 53 women ages 10 to 59 from 1981 to 1994. The theme that seems to pop up in most of the suspected slayings is that Hall was a Civil War reenactor and women would come up missing after he had been to town for a reenactment. Hall is presently serving a life sentence without the possibility for parole for a federal charge of kidnapping. Wabash resident and Historian Ron Woodward is familiar with the Hall case and especially how it affected the Wabash area after it broke. Woodward is a retired History teacher for the Wabash City School District and taught during the
DATELINE NBC PRODUCER Fred Rothenberg interviews Wabash resident Ron Woodward recently while compiling footage for a special to air in the fall about former Wabash resident Larry Hall, suspected of killing up to 53 women from 1981 to 1994. (photo by Craig Brosman) time Hall was in Rothenberg to set the 1990’s. school. Woodward tone and mood of “People could not was interviewed by Wabash in the mid(continued on page 6)
Mormons from Northeast Indiana and Northwest Ohio met at Salamonie Reservoir by Craig Brosman When it comes to
actually understanding what it was like to
trek across America in the 19th century, no
one knows it better than a group of 160
Mormon youth. On July 19 nearly 160 teenagers from multiple Mormon stakes in Northeast Indiana and Northwest Ohio created fictional families and embarked on a three-day physical and spiritual journey through time at Salamonie Reservoir. The youth along with 30 adults recreated the 1848 handcart trek to Zion, where Mor mon
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GREG LOOSHE, 16, Fort Wayne; David Lauder, Toledo, Ohio; and Dennis Keplinger, Fort Wayne pull their handcart up a steep hill at the Salamonie Reservoir July 19. Keplinger’s family hiked six miles in over 100 degree weather that day. The trek was a part of the Fort Wayne and Toldeo, Ohio stakes Wilderness Youth Conference that took place July 19th and 20th. (photo by Craig Brosman)
families migrated west to avoid persecution. They even dressed up in period clothing. Church member and organizer Richard Hamilton, of Toledo, Ohio said this was the first time that they have been on the handcart trek, but it serves a similar purpose. “It is about teamwork,” Hamilton said. “They will have to work together to carry the carts over rocks, mud, hills and water. It is a physical and spiritual challenge in a controlled fashion.” The Fort Wayne stake has been a part of this conference previously, but this year they invited stakes from Ohio as well. In years past there have been groups from Fort Wayne and Muncie at the reservoir for the same conference. On their journey from Iowa to Utah in the 19th century, Mormons trekked across thousands of miles of the American plains to escape religious persecution, many of those who made the (continued on page 6)